Chernobylite 2 Q&A – 20 Times Bigger World, 2-3X Longer Playtime, Third-Person View, Fall 2025 Release Window

Polish developer The Farm 51 announced Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, the sequel to 2021's first-person shooter survival horror game, just before Gamescom 2024.

While there, I had the chance to speak with Wojciech Pazdur, Development Director at The Farm 51, who discussed the big changes of this sequel, which is moving to the third-person open world role-playing game genre (albeit with an optional first-person view for exploration) and shooting for a much bigger game in terms of explorable area and playtime, not to mention optional support for cooperative multiplayer.

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We also learned that the studio is tentatively targeting a Fall 2025 release window, that it would rather not follow the early access path used for the original game, and that a Nintendo Switch port of the first Chernobylite is on the way.

When did you begin working on Chernobylite 2?

We started working on it as soon as we launched the first game. However, Chernobylite 1 was never fully finished because we just released the last DLCs, the last expansion packs, a bit over a month ago. This is actually the end of our journey with Chernobylite 1. A port is coming for Nintendo Switch, but we are not developing the game ourselves.

We first started working on concepts and prototypes for Chernobylite 2 in the second half of 2021, so it's been almost three years today. The pre-production took us one year and a half, and we've been in production for over a year. We still have one year until the game is finished. Today, we are close to the Alpha stage, meaning you can play almost all the game. We actually wanted to wait to announce Chernobylite 2 up to the day when the first one was completely done from our aspect.

Are you going to do early access again?

We are considering early access. However, because of the scale of the project, we would prefer not to. We know that early access is very helpful.